Howard Lovy
Howard Lovy is a veteran journalist who has focused primarily on technology, science and innovation during the past decade.
In 2001, he helped launch
Small Times Magazine, a nanotech publication based in Ann Arbor, MI, where he built the freelance team and worked closely with writers to set the tone and style for an emerging sector that had never before been covered from a business perspective. Lovy's work at
Small Times, and on
one of the first nanotechnology-themed blogs, helped him earn a reputation for making complex subjects understandable, interesting, and even entertaining for a broad audience. It also earned him the 2004 Prize in Communication from the Foresight Institute, a nanotech think tank.
In his freelance work, Lovy covers nanotechnology in addition to technological innovation in Michigan with an emphasis on efforts to survive and retool in the state's post-automotive age. Lovy's work has appeared in many publications, including Wired News, Salon.com, the
Wall Street Journal,
The Detroit News,
The Scientist, the
Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report,
Michigan Messenger, and the
Ann Arbor Chronicle.
Recent posts
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Arboretum Ventures, based in Ann Arbor, MI, is a co-leader in a $10-million Series B financing round for Irvine, Calif.-based PathCentral, an anatomic pathology services company, according to a report today in peHUB.... Read more »
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To Chris Rizik, one of the best things about yesterday’s announced final close of nearly $50 million in investment funds for the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is that the money comes... Read more »
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At the University of Michigan, the inmates really are running the asylum. I’ve written before about the Wolverine Venture Fund, where students are not playing with Monopoly money: they’re investing... Read more »
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A common refrain among skeptics of electric vehicles is that there’s a “lack of infrastructure” to support their widespread adoption.
On Thursday, Detroit will see a what could be the beginning of... Read more »
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If you squint just the right way at new numbers from a quarterly “innovation index” released by the University of Michigan-Dearborn, you might just believe that Michigan could be headed toward an... Read more »
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Investors have funneled more than $123 million into Michigan startup companies so far this year, a 35 percent increase compared to the same time period in 2009, according to a report released today... Read more »
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Michael Godwin and Jason Townsend know what they’re getting into, launching a new seed-stage venture capital fund, Resonant Venture Partners, in Michigan during a time when getting institutional investors to climb onboard... Read more »
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Today’s launch of a huge $1 million business plan competition in southeast Michigan gives flesh to the ambitious phrases thrown around back in June, when the new regional Business Accelerator... Read more »
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The Burrito Joint eatery at the corner of Packard and Dewey in Ann Arbor might seem an unlikely birthplace for a tech startup. But that was where Verdi Erel Ergun, 27, the... Read more »
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It sounds barbaric, I know, but there are areas of Michigan where the only way to access the Internet is through a dial-up connection. These throwbacks to the 1990s are primarily located in... Read more »
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Scio Security, an Ann Arbor, MI-based developer of mobile phone transaction security systems, has received an undisclosed amount of venture capital investment from True Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based firm that invests... Read more »
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Nancy Skinner, CEO of NextWave Media Studios and part owner of the just-opened NextWave business space in Troy, MI, describes her new digs as a “different animal” from your average incubator.
It... Read more »
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Early-stage life science companies in West Michigan may be happy to know that a $10 million fund is being raised just for them. Michigan’s 21st Century Jobs Fund, run by the... Read more »
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Once upon a time in Detroit, automobiles were built using all U.S.-made parts, put together by an all-American crew working a U.S. assembly line.
Well, no. As the first four words of this story... Read more »
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Swift Biosciences, an Ann Arbor, MI, company that makes reagents for genetic tests, has announced that it received $3 million in Series A financing in June led by VC firm DFJ Mercury... Read more »
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Three Michigan companies have received a combined $140,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund program, managed by the Ann Arbor SPARK business incubator. This latest round means the program has invested a total of... Read more »
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Minneapolis, like other Midwestern cities, is used to losing technology startups to Silicon Valley. But when Ben Kazez packed up Mobiata, his company that develops mobile software apps for travelers,... Read more »
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Dan Gilbert, the chairman and founder of Quicken Loans, is hoping that if he declares Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s main drag, to be a new, tech-centered “WEBward Avenue” often enough, it just might... Read more »
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It’s near the beginning of 2001 and I walk into the Ann Arbor, MI, offices of Ardesta for the first time. I am introduced to Rick Snyder, CEO of the business accelerator. After... Read more »
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GM Ventures, the new VC arm of General Motors, is investing $5 million in Bright Automotive, based in Anderson, IN, according to a Bright news release (PDF) and reports in... Read more »
